The mass shooting at a parade in Illinois could have been carried out by gun control advocates, according to a conspiracy theorist.
She mentioned two shootings on July 4th, one in a rich, white neighborhood and the other at a fireworks display.
There was a parade shooting in Highland Park that left seven people dead and an incident in Philadelphia that left two police officers wounded
She said it almost sounded like it was designed to get Republicans to support more gun control. We didn't see that at the Pride parades in June.
She tried to appropriate the entire month in the name of Donald Trump, not just the 4th of July.
As soon as we hit the month that we are all celebrating, loving our country, we have shootings on July 4th. That would sound like a conspiracy theory to me. It's absolutely true. What is the definition of right-wing conspiracy theories? It's the news that's six months early.
Marjorie Taylor Greene suggests the two July 4th shootings, “one in a rich white neighborhood and the other at a fireworks display” are false flags “designed to persuade Republicans to go along with more gun control.” pic.twitter.com/VEm6ZUdcUq
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) July 6, 2022
According to a statement from her press office, all the congressman did was ask about the timing, and that's how her comments have been characterized.
She claimed that this is a fake news story and that the full video has her demanding to know what drugs, SSRI's, arrest record, what the police knew about the shooter and how upset she was.
In other clips, he pointed out that white Christian nationalists did not carry out mass murders at the Pride parades.
She made a similar claim about the mass shooting in Las Vegas in which 58 people were killed.
In May of this year, she promoted a conspiracy theory that the government was going to track and monitor what people eat and force them to eat fake meat.
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